David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of The Lost City of Z and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. I am never sure how to choose the “best” story as there are too many. But here’s a list of some of the most notable and memorable stories I read in 2012. Pamela […]
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“Deadhead.” —Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, on the recorded history of the Grateful Dead More from Paumgarten
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The author of The Satanic Verses on the fatwa issued against him in 1989 by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. “The Disappeared.” — Salman Rushdie, New Yorker More New Yorker
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A mistake on a Wikipedia entry for one of his novels leads an author to set the record straight: My novel ‘The Human Stain’ was described in the entry as ‘allegedly inspired by the life of the writer Anatole Broyard.’ (The precise language has since been altered by Wikipedia’s collaborative editing, but this falsity still […]